Research reveals intriguing insights into couples that financially buck the cultural trend. Househusbands may feel emasculated and driven to cheat, while the bread-earning woman is less likely to stray.

Scientists have discovered that sepsis leaves 11 tell-tale signs in the blood. The discovery raises hope of a simple blood test that rapidly picks up the illness, saving some of the 40,000 lives lost every year.

Researchers from Leeds Beckett University asked 301 under-nines questions about their attitude to food and how happy they were with their bodies. Despite the obesity problem, anorexia rates have risen.

In the first study of its kind, US researchers tracked the health of 224 diabetics over two years and found wine drinkers experienced an increase in of ‘good’ cholesterol - particularly if they drank red.